Oriel Science

Oriel Science的目标是：在社区中展示科学。Oriel Science是一个面向公众的展览和推广空间，展示了该大学的STEM研究。我们的愿景是举办滚动的、主题的、以科学为基础的展览，针对我们的两个目标受众：学生和广大公众。在画廊旁边，Oriel Science将举办一个研讨会，提供与每个展览并行的学校课程。我们创建无障碍、信息丰富和互动的展览，重点关注大学STEM社区的工作和合作。我们通过科学主题带领游客踏上一段内心深处的旅程，点燃他们探索这一主题的好奇心，并在他们的想象中留下持久的遗产。我们将鼓励年轻的游客在学校选择STEM科目，从而在大学获得STEM学位，我们将进一步发展老年游客的科学素养。Oriel Science于2016年9月10日由斯旺西大学主办的英国科学节结束时启动。我们的场地是在斯旺西市中心步行购物中心的一个免费的空置商业单位。我们在每个周末和学校假期向公众开放，直到2017年6月。我们的学校假期计划为学龄学生举办了特别的活动和研讨会，重点是STEM研究。我们总共接待了16,000名公众游客，并得到了媒体的大量报道。我们的反馈是非常积极的，超过90%的人说他们通过参观了解了更多的科学知识，同样比例的人会把我们推荐给朋友。除了公开活动，我们还组织了学校访问，来自16所学校的900名学生参加了针对他们年龄段的讲习班。由于我们位于市中心，奥里尔科学吸引了STFC科学的新观众：我们40%的游客没有踏上斯旺西大学的校园。至关重要的是，对公众游客的邮政编码分析表明，就威尔士多重剥夺指数而言，我们的游客人口统计与斯旺西的整体人口统计相匹配。这证明我们建造了一个欢迎所有人的科学展览中心，包括“难以到达”的社区部分。我们的展览将有威尔士语和英语的双语解说板，用参观者的母语直接将我们与威尔士的观众联系起来。我们的第一个弹出式展览以“时间”为主题，共有16个展品，包括STFC LHC路演，一系列粒子物理探测器（云室，盖革计数器，MX-10探测器和μ子天文台）。我们有一个关于黑洞附近时间膨胀的视听动画，一个身临其境的体验，展示了一段从旅行者号宇宙飞船上拍摄的南方恒星的延时视频。30米高的“时间墙”展示了宇宙大爆炸以来的历史动画。一辆“回到未来”的德罗宁车和一辆塔迪斯“时间机器”吸引着公众来到会场，从外面就可以看到。我们现在正在策划第二个主题展览“影像”，将在我们的永久画廊空间开放时推出。本申请旨在为该企业的重要STFC足迹寻求资金。特别是，我们正在申请资助以天文为主题的展览，利用福克斯望远镜的图像，欧空局的地球观测卫星模型，学生大使的费用，以及馆长的工资。我们的“影像”展览为参观者提供了一个绝佳的机会，让他们了解STFC科学，从而加深他们对这项科学技术的理解和欣赏

Oriel Science's aim is: Showcasing Science in the Community.Oriel Science is a public-facing exhibition and outreach space showcasing the University's STEM research. Our vision is to host rolling, thematic, science-based exhibitions aimed at our two target audiences: school students and the wider public. Alongside the gallery, Oriel Science will house a workshop offering a schools programme in parallel with each exhibition. We create accessible, informative and interactive exhibitions focused on the work and collaborations of the University's STEM community. We take visitors on a visceral journey through a scientific theme, ignite their curiosity to explore that theme, and leave a lasting legacy in their imagination. We will encourage younger visitors to choose STEM subjects at school leading to STEM degrees in University and we further develop the scientific literacy of older visitors.Oriel Science launched on 10th September 2016 at the end of the British Science Festival which was hosted by Swansea University. Our venue was in a rent-free, empty commercial unit in the pedestrianised shopping mall in the Swansea city centre.We were open to the public every weekend and during school holidays until June 2017. Our school holiday programme had organised special events and workshops focussing on the STEM research designed for school-aged students. In all we welcomed 16,000 public visitors and have had significant media coverage. Our feedback is overwhelmingly positive, over 90% say that they have learnt more about science as a result of their visit and a similar percentage would recommend us to a friend.Alongside our public openings, we ran organised school visits where 900 students from 16 schools attended workshops targeted to their age-groups.Due to our city centre location, Oriel Science attracted a new audience to STFC science: 40% of our visitors have not set foot on a Swansea University campus. Crucially, a postcode analysis of our public visitors showed that our visitor demographic matched that of Swansea as a whole in terms of the Welsh Index of Multiple Deprivation. This proved that we built a science exhibition centre which was welcoming to all, including the "hard-to-reach" sections of the community.Our exhibitions will have linked, bilingual explanation board in Welsh and English, directly connecting us to audiences in Wales in the visitors' mother tongue.Our first, pop-up exhibition is based on the theme of "Time" and features 16 exhibits including the STFC LHC Roadshow, a range of particle physics detectors (a cloud chamber, Geiger counter, MX-10 detector and muon observatory). We have an audio visual animation of time dilation near black holes, an immersive experience showing a time lapse video of the southern stars with a sound track taken from the Voyager spacecraft. A 30 metre "time wall" has an animation of the history of the Universe from the Big Bang. The public is welcomed to the venue by a "Back to the Future" DeLorean and a Tardis "time machine" enticingly situated to be visible from the outside.We are now planning our second themed exhibition, "Image", to be launched when we open our permanent gallery space. This application seeks funding for a significant STFC footprint in this venture. In particular we are applying for funding for astronomically-themed exhibit utilising images from the Faulkes Telescope, mock-ups of earth observation satellites from ESA, costs for student ambassadors, and salary for our Curator. Our "Image" exhibition represents a fantastic opportunity to engage visitors with STFC Science so that their understanding and appreciation of this science and technology is developed